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With DirectX 12 looming, AMD said Monday night that the new gaming API will do more than wring performance from your CPU. Your GPU should see major benefits, too.The problem, AMD says, is that with DirectX 11, the GPU pipeline (how commands and data are fed to the video card), just isn't very efficient. Using highway traffic as an analogy, AMD ...

I’ve got a confession to make: Even though I’m PCWorld’s gaming and graphics editor as well as a compulsive hoarder of in-game screenshots and video clips, very few of those gaming moments—practically none, if I’m being honest—make their way to my social media feeds. It just feels weird spamming all my non-gamer friends and family with a flood of Dying ...

With DirectX 12 looming, AMD said Monday night that the new gaming API will do more than wring performance from your CPU. Your GPU should see major benefits, too. The problem, AMD says, is that with DirectX 11, the GPU pipeline (how commands and data are fed to the video card), just isn't very efficient. Using highway traffic as an analogy, ...

Best laptops: all your buying questions answeredUpdated: The Chromebook Pixel is the most powerful and fastest Chromebook we've ever tested, read a short snippet about it below.With Windows 8.1 here and Windows 10 on the way, Ultrabooks taking off in popularity and laptop-tablet hybrids seeing more releases, figuring out what is the best laptop is more difficult than ever.Cheap laptops, ...

Samsung may be considering acquiring AMD if rumours emanating from Hankooki, the South Korean newspaper equivalent of the Financial Times, is to be believed.AMD is currently not in the best of shapes with its x86 CPU products, finding it harder to keep up with Intel's relentless onslaught while its graphics chips battle out with Nvidia's newly introduced Maxwell GPUs.The only ...